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Strike users can now use our Send Globally rails in Argentina!

Send #bitcoin, dollars, or USDT direct to bank accounts in Argentina

I’ve spent a lot of hours analyzing “crypto” and keeping up with the fads, and to this day I still cannot find a problem that I have, and that it can solve.

Bitcoin solves my hard globally-portable savings problem. I don’t see better money than this. And that’s a big problem to solve.

Stablecoins solve some developing market intermediate-term money problems in very inflationary environments as a bridging tool while Bitcoin is still volatile. Okay. That’s big for now.

Digital collectibles are fine. I mean, I have cardboard Magic the Gathering cards worth thousands of dollars. So you buy an ape NFT and get membership to an exclusive ape club (which is like all dudes, nearly entirely devoid of women) and can show your status by displaying your supposedly elite avatar. I do see how there is a nonzero recurring interest in this sort of digital elitist collectible thing. But it doesn’t solve any of my problems or seem to be relevant on the macro scale. A niche thing that doesn’t appeal to me. Like, Pokémon might make a billion dollars but it won’t make a macro-scale trillion dollars.

DeFi is mainly about trading and leveraging worthless tokens. In a world where there are much more real-world tokens involved (eg tokenized Apple stock or whatever), then maybe there is more of a use for that. But until then it’s mainly a circular Ponzi. And even then, that industry is limited.

So almost 15 years into this industry, there have been a handful of interesting experiments, but barely anything other than bitcoin and stablecoins interests me at scale.

Beyond that, it is just things that they can empower.

Nostr, for example, doesn’t need a blockchain. There is no reason to go to the expense to maintain a global state. It certainly is empowered from the fact that Bitcoin and Lightning exist (new good money allows for new good technologies), so it’s a tangential technology.

The vast majority of “crypto” projects either don’t solve a problem, or just solve a smaller niche interest.

ZEUS will never block payment to our competitors’ wallets, disparage or belittle anyone trying push Bitcoin adoption forward, or give up on trying to ship self custodial solutions.

We will, however, continue to push the limits of what is possible on Lightning in order to provide an amazing payments experience, in a self custodial manner, for as many people as possible.

The app store release of ZEUS v0.8.0, featuring our embedded node(“the node is in the phone”), OLYMPUS LSP, self custodial Lightning addresses, and rebrand, drops in December. Much more will follow in 2024.

We’re grateful to everyone who’s come along for the ride with us and we’re excited to help onboard the next wave of Bitcoiners.

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Good morning Nostr, PV and smile 😁

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Are Zapchats a thing yet?

👉 Attaching a cost (zap) to contacting someone for the first time

Questions:

1. Would you let the contacted user set a minimal sat amount?

2. Or would you let people zap what they want and hope that it's enough to move up on, let's say, ODELL's list?

I turned 35 yesterday. Feel like I should have some profound thoughts or lessons learned. Really don’t, though. Things have radically simplified for me over the years:

Spend as much time with my daughter as possible.

Be a good husband.

Lift weights and stay in shape.

Read lots of books.

Save in #bitcoin.

Freaky Friday!!! I'll send someone 50000 sats who sends me the funniest Halloween meme. I get the final say 😈 making a decision at 12:12pm EST #halloweenstr

Kinda great that almost nobody is talking about price on here, BT was swamped anytime there was the slightest move

How'd you get that on your home screen?

Is there a nostr client that is default work-friendly? Primal?

I was testing a client today and saw some NSFW content the moment I created a new npub.

Would be cool to get at least one client to be SFW the moment you sign up.

#asknostr